MSc Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
How thevaginal microbiomeshapes HPV clearance.
I study the microbial communities that decide whether an HPV infection clears or persists — the step that precedes cervical cancer. My work joins 16S rRNA sequencing with longitudinal statistics, in cohorts across East Africa.
- Peer-reviewed
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- In preparation
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- Awards
- 13
- TA appointments
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About
About
I am an MSc student in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba, working in the McKinnon Lab within the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences. My thesis asks whether the composition of the vaginal microbiome acts as a biological variable in HPV clearance among female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya.
That question sits at the point where microbiology, epidemiology, and data analysis meet. Day to day it means end-to-end amplicon sequencing bioinformatics, longitudinal and cross-sectional modelling in R, and enough wet-lab work — DNA extraction, qPCR, molecular assays — to know how the data I analyse was actually generated. I work across several collaborative cohorts: a topical artesunate trial for CIN2/3 in women living with HIV, the multi-site MAGY study of adolescent girls and young women in East Africa, and a gut microbiome arm of an early-antiretroviral-therapy study.
More about me- 16S rRNA amplicon sequencingMicrobiome
- Microbiome data processingMicrobiome
- R — wrangling & visualisationBioinformatics
- Longitudinal & cross-sectional analysisStatistics
- DNA/RNA extraction · qPCRMolecular
- Cell culture · Western blotCell biology
Selected work
Research
Microbiome analysis across four studies, from a Nairobi thesis cohort to multi-site prevention trials in East Africa.
MAGY — adolescent girls and young women in East Africa
Multi-site study of HIV vaccines and antibody-based prevention; responsible for the vaginal microbiome bioinformatics across the cohort.
Vaginal microbiome during topical artesunate treatment for CIN2/3
Microbiome profiles across a longitudinal cohort of women living with HIV receiving topical artesunate for cervical precancer.
Early antiretroviral therapy and gut-resident memory CD4+ T cells
Gut microbiome analysis supporting an immunological study of how early ART affects tissue-resident memory CD4+ T cells in the gastrointestinal tract.
Vaginal microbiome dynamics and HPV clearance
Master's thesis — whether vaginal microbiome composition acts as a biological variable in HPV clearance among female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Publications
Peer-reviewed work in infectious disease, reproductive medicine, and cancer cell biology.
Impact of early antiretroviral therapy on tissue resident memory CD4+ T cells in the gastrointestinal tract
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
The effect of intrauterine infusion of plasma enriched platelet on live birth rate in patients with implantation failure: a retrospective uncontrolled study
Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Cancer Research
Downregulation of Pinkbar/pAKT and MMP2/MMP9 expression in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells using hAMSCs secretome
Cells Tissues Organs
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I am glad to hear from researchers, collaborators, and students — about the microbiome work, the cohorts, or the analysis behind them. Email reaches me fastest.